To provide a simple and low overhead method of opting out specific pages from the operations performed by a bot.
A sub page of the bots user page would control which pages are excluded from that bots operations. The format of that page would allow pages to be excluded from a specific bot operation or from all operations performed by the bot. If the page doesn't exist, then no page is excluded from the bots operations. If the page does exist, it must be queried before performing operations. Data from the page may be cached at the beginning of a bot run, but should be regularly checked (no more than 5 minutes between checks) for updates.
The location of the sub page should be at /Exclusions.
The sub page format should be as follows:
==*== List items in this section will be excluded from all operations this bot performs. ==foo== List items in this section will be excluded from operations performed under the name "foo". *[[User talk:Locke Cole]] *[[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard]] ==bar== *[[User talk:Locke Cole]]